Designing a single powerful processor can lead to challenges in heat dissipation, power consumption, and manufacturing complexity. As performance scales, diminishing returns may occur due to physical limitations, making it less efficient. Furthermore, parallel processing through multiple simpler cores often provides better performance for diverse workloads, improving overall efficiency and responsiveness. Thus, a heterogeneous approach with multiple specialized processors can be more effective and adaptable to various tasks.
It depends on what kind of processor you are talking about. If you are talking about a CPU, the main processor in a computer, the reason for multiple cores and not a single very processor is a fairly simple answer. Imagine you have a toll booth (the CPU), with a number of lanes (cores in the CPU). In real life the technology only exists to build a toll booth of a certain size. So what happens? You build more lanes and add more toll booths. That is basically the reason for building multiple cores.
Microprocessor is a single chip processor.
it a single processor
Smaller processors are almost always cheaper, and use less electricity. Using a large number of processors in parallel also gives some redundancy, since a single processor node failing will not stop work from being performed.
Intel is currently preparing a six core processor for release.Four processor are the most you can get now.
It is called a micro-processor......a processor on a single chip
Quite simply, a Uni (Single) core processor has only a single primary calculations core. A Multi (Dual, quad, hexi, etc) core processor has more than one primary calculations core.
AMD, Intel, ARM, VIA, Samsung, etc have all produced or manufactured a single core or variant of a single core processor at some point. I'm sure there's more, but I can't imagine you need to know all of them. If you meant FIRST single-core processor... The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit processor manufacturered in 1971-- This has the distinction of being the first fully complete processor contained on a single chip.
Four independent cores into a single package composed of a single IC. A dual-core processor contains two cores, and a quad-core processor contains four cores.
An example of a single core Processor is anything from Intel's first processor to the late Pentium 4 era. There are also some single core Pentium Core 2/duo line products but those were very cheap for consumers.
The 3DS contains an ARM11 MPCore dual-core processor, and also a single ARM9 processor for backwards compatability with the original DS games.
one single powerful processor consumes more energy generates more heat then multi-core processors ,A multi core processor will also be faster since there are multiple processors to handle the data manipulation instead of having to use time sharing.